From the autumn of 1935 he was the head of the CEC department of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic.
He was shot on October 29, 1937 in the NKVD internal prison in Minsk during a mass shooting.
He was rehabilitated by the military board of the Supreme Court of the USSR on April 3, 1957 due to the absence of a crime.
On September 22, 1937, his wife Dyakova Maria Ivanovna was arrested in Minsk.
On November 28, 1937, she was sentenced by a special decree of the NKVD as "the wife of a traitor to the motherland" to eight years in the camps.